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In other business from the meet
ing:
• UNL Chancellor Graham
Spanier reported on the status of
engineering services for the analy
sis of Memorial Stadium.
He said the collapsed section of
the stadium would be replaced
temporarily with bleachers, but
won’t be repaired permanently
until after football season is over.
• Regents approved a bid from
the Piedmont Construction Com
pany of Lincoln for a contract
amount of $337,848 for the partial
demolition and reconstruction of
the 501 Building.
• A proposal to move UNL’s
Czech language program from the
department of Modem Languages
to the Division of Continuing Stud
ies was also approved by the re
gents.
The proposal served as a means
to keep Czech language courses at
UNL in spite of low enrollment
figures without using state funds.
The move was instigated by a
$40,000 cut by the Legislature’s
1992 university budgelcut, Spanier
said.
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Czech program move approved
By Shane Tucker guarantee that the classes would be in Czech language courses at UNL
staff Reporter offered. feared the move would diminish what_
Supporters of UNL’s Czech lan
guage program refused to let the ac
tions of the NU Board of Regents last
Saturday go unchecked.
The regents passed a proposal to
relegate the University of Nebraska
Lincoln ’ s Czech language program to
the Division of Continuing Studies
despite concerns of-students and com
munity members the move would be
detrimental to the future of the pro
gram.
The compromise would allow
Czech programming to remain at UNL
without the use of state funds. Vice
Chancellor forAcademic Affairs Joan
Leitzel said.
At a regent Academic Affairs sub
committee meeting lastFriday, Leitzel
said the NU Foundation would subsi
dize the tuition difference between
the number of students enrolled in
Czech classes with the 15-sludent
minimum imposed on all continuing
studies programming, which would
The proposal would provide Czech
language classes for the next three
years in an effort to increase their
enrollment, at which point they would
be re-evaluated and possibly returned
to regularprogramming, Leitzel said.
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier
said the move would allow more op
portunity for part-time students and
members of the community to take
the Czech courses.
“Our plan is to give these courses
every opportunity to increase their
enrollment,” Spanier said.
Low enrollment numbers in Czech
language courses are what prompted
university officials to re-evaluate the
need for the courses in regular pro
gramming. According to the Depart
ment of Modem Languages, only 21
students were enrolled in Czech lan
guage courses in the 1992 fall semes
ter, and that figure dropped to 12
students in the following spring se
mester.
However, several students involved
they consider to oe an exceueni pro
gram.
Chris Sempek, a former UNL Rus
sian major, voiced concern that the
move to continuing studies would be
a “slow death” for UNL’s Czech pro
gramming.
“We have a quality program al
ready in place,” Sempek said. “We’re
on par with Georgetown, Harvard and
Oxford.”
UNL student sonja ivapoun sam
she was concerned the move might
affect the quality of the program.
“We have a good program — why
should we try to destroy it?” Kapoun
said.
Robert Simerly, Dean of Continu
ing Studies, said academic credit for
the Czech language courses would
remain the same. Simerly also said
the quality of the classes within con
tinuing studies would be no less than
those in regular programming, and
that instructors would be chosen and
supervised by the Department of
Modem Languages.
NU president search now underway
By Lisa Vernon The search committee has had one “The university is looking for the
Staff Reporter meeting this month with all of its 18 best candidate,” O’Brien said. “They
The search is on for the University
of Nebraska’s new president, and the
university’s search committee has
selected a firm lo help with the project.
Korn/Ferry International, a Dallas
search firm, will be the consultants
for the uni versity’s search for depart
ing NU President Martin Massengale.
NU Regent and committee co
chairman Nancy O’Brien of Water
loo, and committee secretary J.B.
Milliken said the firm would help
coordinate the search by generating
interest in the position, recruiting can
didates to the pool, making contacts
with applicants, screening files, orga
nizing the interviewing process and
conducting ex tensive reference check
ing.
“One of the firm’s jobs that I think
is the most important is working to
keep the candidates in the race,”
Milliken said.
members, and their next meeting to
check the progress of the search is
scheduled for July 13.
O'Brien said the initial meeting
was used to review the ground rules
for the search.
“The consultants were introduced
to the committee," O'Briensaid. “We
talked about how we would use the
search firm."
A limited ad has been placed in the
Wall Street Journal to keep the field
of candidates open between business
people and academia, O'Brien said.
“There was just some discussion
because Wall Street Journal ads are
very expensive," she said. “We chose
to place a very small ad as opposed to
the Chronicle of Higher Education.
O'Brien said during the applica
tion process, it did not matter to the
committee if the candidates were from
the academic or business worlds.
must nave at least an unaerstanaing
and a familiarity with higher educa
tion.”
Milliken said the goal of the com
mittee was to present four to eight
candidates to the regents in Novem
ber. The regents will then conduct
interviews withlhefinalistsandeven
tually make their selection.
“Our goal is to have the selection
be made by the end of the year,”
Milliken said.
To help get the process underway,
O’Brien, Milliken and co-chairman
Rob Raun recently took a trip to Wash
ington D.C. to meet with officials.
“We met with four different presi
dents to talk about UNL and the
search ” Milliken said. “We talked
about the commitment by the regents
to select the best candidates and to get
suggestions from them for the search,
and to invite them to talk to people
they think would make good candi
dates.”
Memorial Stadium repair timetable extended
By usa vernon
Staff Reporter
Memorial Stadium’siace-lift will
lake a bit longer than expected, Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln Chan
cellor Graham Spanier said.
The stadium’s section 14, which
collapsed last month, was initially
believed to be repaired in time foi
Nebraksa s home opener on Sept. 4.
But Spanier said Saturday at the
NU Board of Regents meeting that
temporary bleachers will be built and
used during the football season in
stead of rebuilding the section with a
new design.
“Reconstruction of the southeast
stands would interfere with football
practices and the Shrine high school
all-star game in August, bpaniersaia.
Permanent replacement of the col
lapsed stands will take place at the
conclusion of the football season. It is
estimated it will take about two months
to rebuild the section.
Walt Broer Construction Co. and
Dickey & Burnham Inc., both oTLin
coln, have been asked by the univer
sity to begin work as soon as it is
feasible.
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"There is no rush to complete the
studies and replacement, because UNL
wants lo make sure that the work is
thorough and the stadium is totally
sound, said Jack Goebel, UNL vice
chancellor for business affairs.
Chicago consulting firm Wiss,
Janney, Elslner and Associates is now
finishing up its two week inspection
of the stadium.
Director of Facilities Management
Rich McDermott,said theconsultants
were finishing the field phase of the
inspection. A lab and analysis phase
will follow, and a final report is ex
pected in August, he said.
